Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.